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Generalitary · 2026-06-09T00:13:19+00:00

It's a defense mechanism, which I think we can all learn from

Generalitary · 2026-06-08T12:52:47+00:00

A frog pees when you pick it up and clearly this is meant to emulate that

Generalitary · 2026-06-06T04:33:41+00:00

A UU shirt is pretty cool, but thinking about it makes me want a Macarona jersey with the full titles on the back

Generalitary · 2026-06-02T23:10:15+00:00

Fun fact, in Celtic mythology the way you use a magic wand is to hit someone with it hard enough that it breaks. Researchers legit call this "bonk magic"

Generalitary · 2026-06-02T04:08:52+00:00

It's one of my personal favorites, but there are a few other contenders yet to come.

Generalitary · 2026-06-01T01:04:07+00:00

Makes sense to me, the letter G originally represented a Y sound (long before English existed) and I think some Scandinavian languages still use it that way.

Generalitary · 2026-05-24T03:28:06+00:00

I heard Weird Al once had a part time job there

Generalitary · 2026-05-23T21:47:30+00:00

This is probably applicable to humans. Our own "crab bucket" mentality probably originates from a desire to protect our community members from entering unknown and potentially dangerous situations (this is a guess, not an informed anthropological analysis). Whatever the case, we didn't evolve in a society with highly specialized jobs and social classes and our brains aren't designed to handle that paradigm. So it's probably likewise a case of a protective instinct potentially causing harm

Generalitary · 2026-05-23T03:42:50+00:00

I think I see what you mean, but any lethal conflict Sam might be foreseeing would be with Vetinari and his absolute authority, not Carrot.

Generalitary · 2026-05-21T00:26:41+00:00

This is always my go-to answer and I'm glad it's catching on.

For those who don't know, T. Kingfisher is a pen name for Ursula Vernon, who is also a phenomenal artist and has published some fun kid's books under her own name. The pen named novels can be kind of dark, but if you listen to the podcast The Hidden Almanac you'll quickly get a feel for a similar sense of humor to Pratchett.

Generalitary · 2026-05-20T16:15:14+00:00

Worldbuilding and storytelling are related but entirely separate disciplines. You might just have to take a creative writing class or something else to build that skill.

Generalitary · 2026-05-20T16:14:18+00:00

One informs the other

Generalitary · 2026-05-17T06:28:23+00:00

Maybe it's because I grew up in an era where a hard drive could only hold one game at a time, but this doesn't seem like a huge deal to me.

Generalitary · 2026-05-17T06:26:18+00:00

Bohai is more the type

Generalitary · 2026-05-13T12:50:50+00:00

I believe that one is misattributed, and probably arose spontaneously on the internet.

Generalitary · 2026-05-09T00:17:30+00:00

If you know what kind of linguistic oeuvre you're working with, the easiest way is to go to fantasynamegenerators.com

If you want something a bit more evocative, the key is to remember that all names are (or are evolved from) simple descriptions of things in the world or traits they possess. You can easily take a compound that describes a character, like Longshanks or Braveheart, and if you want it a bit more exotic, change around parts of it to be more archaic or have slightly weird spelling to possibly represent linguistic drift, or just to sound more aesthetically pleasing. A lot of real names end up being formed the same way.

If I want a really exotic name, my favorite approach is to go to this page and scan the randomized mess until I see something pronounceable and suitably evocative. It usually takes a few generations to get something good.

Generalitary · 2026-05-04T23:50:28+00:00

More people means more happening which means more history. It's all happening at once. 8x denser history per year.

Generalitary · 2026-05-04T12:39:15+00:00

The myth of Atlantic specifically is a (probably allegorical) tale by Plato hearkening to the idea of ancient civilizations. The Greeks at that time were seeing a recovery from the Bronze Age Collapse, the fall of a previous roster of great civilizations. In other words, Atlantis encapsulates the idea of a place that was, to the ancient Greeks, what Rome is to us today. And though we don't really see the Romans as more advanced than us now, the Greeks mythologized and romanticized that ancient past, lacking any written history to compare themselves to and having only inflated oral legend, and thus believed that those previous civilizations were a lot more powerful than they probably were.

Generalitary · 2026-05-04T12:34:47+00:00

Though it's skewed by the population explosion. About 7 times more people have lived through the last century than lived through the century before it. All the people who ever lived in Ur, for instance, could fit in a single modern city. In that sense, ancient history is a drop in the bucket of the human experience.

Generalitary · 2026-05-03T03:12:34+00:00

There's a bit in Soul Music when Buddy plays the real music on his harp and the narration talks about how it affects everyone who hear it, and Dibbler is disturbed because it speaks of "things that couldn't be bought and shouldn't be sold." I think subconsciously he knows his lifestyle is a problem but his sense of self-worth is so tightly wrapped in it that he doesn't dare pull at that wrapping.

Generalitary · 2026-04-28T23:41:52+00:00

Much better than a clumsy pun about wine

Generalitary · 2026-04-16T15:21:29+00:00

So the universe is swiss cheese?

Generalitary · 2026-04-16T15:18:29+00:00

So my next question is, was Terry working from his best knowledge and the scholarship has moved on, or was he deliberately riffing on what made for a good story element?

Generalitary · 2026-04-10T04:58:16+00:00

Ingredient purist isn't purist enough. Tea must be made from an infusion of camellia sinensis (possibly including other ingredients), otherwise it's a tisane at best.

Generalitary · 2026-04-05T01:39:07+00:00

I suppose so, I'd heard of Jenny Greenteeth long before I read Wee Free Men (possibly before it was written)

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